Category Archive for: ‘couples’

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  How Not To Communicate About Money In Your Marriage

  For the last two weeks I’ve been dealing with a situation which required me to intervene with a couple with regard to their finances.  To say that this has been the most frustrating two weeks of my life is an understatement.  Sleepless nights.  Crazy emails [...]

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• Having It All: Man, Child, Dog And The Picket Fence! Part 1

  How many times have we thought about this?  Self imposed (sometimes socially) time lines on motherhood, career, education and marriage? I’ve always believed that women can have it all.  Still do, just in staggered moderation.  Lately, I have to admit though, going through my own [...]

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  Repost: Smart Women Marry for Money, and Here’s Why

  Totally provocative and tongue in cheek, but you get the underlying message. Choose your partners wisely. I am not suggesting that women marry solely for money, I am after all a believer in love and commitment as a solid foundation for marriage. However, I am [...]

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  Women And Life Insurance: 4 Reasons Why We Need To Be Prepared For The Inevitable

  The significant other of an acquaintance passed away and while I sent my condolences I couldn’t help but wonder how she would move through financially this year.  I kept thinking did he have life insurance?  Were they a two income household?  Did she depend on [...]

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  Do I Stay or Go? One Woman’s Struggle To Step Out On Her Own (Video)

  How likely are you to leave a bad marriage if you have no education or poor career prospects? I realize there may be other factors such as children, years put into the marriage and each party’s willingness to work things out. But let’s put that [...]

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• Fighting Fair about Finances: How do you measure up?

  photo credit: Laenulfean This is a guest-post I submitted to Millionaire Mommy Next Door with a few changes. In an earlier post I asked, What do you fight about more? Based on your responses, money and sex are at the top of the list. However, [...]

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  The Smart Woman’s Guide for the Soon to be Divorced

  What do Juanita Jordan, Halle Berry and Sheila Johnson all have in common? All three came out on top in their respective divorce proceedings. If you’ve been under a rock and aren’t familiar with the final decisions, Juanita Jordan was paid $168 million dollars when [...]

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  Sex? Money? What do you fight about more?

  CNN asked, so I’m asking, what do you fight about more? photo credit: ganessas

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• Guest Post on Consumerism Commentary

  Check out my guest post on Consumerism Commentary: Smart Women Marry for Money, and Here’s Why. I think this post has sparked some interesting and expected commentary which I will elaborate on later. Until then, feel free to go on over and check it out! [...]

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  Personal Finance Tips For Newlyweds-Part 2

  Part one is here at The Frugal Law Student. Brett wrote an awesome post about Personal Finance Tips for Newlyweds and I wanted to add a few more to the list. Believe it or not this was one of the more challenging issues when we [...]

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  Women and Money: What does it mean to you?

  Growing up my dad always drilled into me that I value money and money does not value me. Now that I am older, I see the wisdom in his words. Sure, Uncle Sam puts a value on me based on my income and net worth [...]

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